So I feel like I need to stop worrying so much about poetry. I mean, worrying about how I write. Who cares if I can't write? I know I can't write.

Anyway. So maybe I will start submitting more rough crap on here. Without any particular form or care. That sounds more like writing to me.

I hate most poetry. I hate most poems ever written. Sometimes I'll read poetry, try to follow poets, thinking they are wise, like they know something I do not. Maybe if I read it, I will pick up on it. I do not. And it still bores me. And I see nothing in it. But they speak with an arrogance (write in an arrogance) that says they know so much! So they must! And yet it BORES me. And I see nothing in it.

So I can't learn ... anything


I hate poetry.

I love old forms. They amuse me. They are so fun! Nobody seems to think so.

So, I must hate poetry.

I guess. Seeing as I've submitted things. I guess I'm writing again ... for a while. We'll see how it goes.

I haven't touched writing in a very long time. I can't bring myself to writing "poetry" again. Every time I see my own writing I want to cringe or throw up or throw books at it. I just don't want to see it. It is revolting. I hate it. I can't work on improving it because I can't even go near it.

Anyone ever feel this way?

It must be over a year since I've written anything seriously, poetry-wise, except a couple things here or there. Not that anything I've ever written could be taken seriously. I don't know. Maybe I need psychological help.

Sigh.

I can't stand the thought of writing shit. But if I don't write shit, I will never write at all. Which is worse?

Alright, this isn't really going to be used as a journal, but a little bit about myself.

I've been on deviantart for a while, but decided to make a gallery dedicated only to writing for a few reasons.
-First of all, when you have poetry and writing jammed in with all kinds of distracting imagery and various sorts of things, nobody pays attention to the things you write.
-If nobody is paying attention to the writing, nobody is commenting on it and nobody is critiquing it.
-When I have a whole variety of media up, I also don't concentrate on critiquing other people's work, because there is too much to take notice of.
-This is a gallery where I concentrate on improving writing skills, rather than just posting loads of crap nobody wants to hear about.

With this new gallery I plan on being more critical. You know when you run into a work and it has "advanced critique encouraged" displayed on the comment box? Well, I believe in following those instructions. I will give and encourage heavy critiquing. I mainly concentrate on poetry, but will read the random prose piece here and there. Feel free to bash my stuff to shit, and I will try to give you constructive criticism. I don't promise that I'm amazing at critiquing, but I am always trying and always learning. I really want to concentrate on developing skills; I am only a novice, but as such I want to encourage and be encouraged with the development of writing skills.

That being said, if I offend anyone along the way, please feel free to tell me to shove my comments up my own @$$ and I won't do it anymore

Advanced critique is seriously lacking on deviantart, and especially so in the writing division. Or rather, I should say that writing is not given the attention it needs to be critiqued. I am always on the look-out for people of the same opinion, so if you have any information on the wherabouts of these people, let me know!

~burn-p0etry

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